Abstract
The Tonal Game (Sect. 15.1) is a fallback strategy by which a transmitted score is processed as a major or minor key. The strategy consists of three main defaults, the order of which is motivated by the Economical Principle: a tonality (first major, then minor)—the only context-free default; a robust key; and finally, a key. Chopin’s Mazurka, Op. 24/2, offers highly instructive examples of the Tonal Game at work, including a contextually motivated overruling of the very first default, a major tonality. Finally, Sect. 15.2 studies a possible connection between the extraordinary tonal richness of Chopin’s Mazurka and the emergence early in the nineteenth century of “Tonality” as a notion of both synchronic and diachronic content, most notably in the work of François-Joseph Fétis.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Computational Music Science |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 251-264 |
Number of pages | 14 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2013 |
Publication series
Name | Computational Music Science |
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ISSN (Print) | 1868-0305 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1868-0313 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2013, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Keywords
- Contextual Input
- Economical Principle
- Modulative Path
- Tonal Language
- Tonal System